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Satires and Epistles

Persius and Satires by Horace

Form
Form Satire
Year
Year 35 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 250

Horace is walking down the Via Sacra, turning some trifle over in his head, when a man he barely knows falls into step beside him, will not be shaken loose, and talks the whole way. No walk in ancient literature is more recognisable.

there's a mean in morals: life has lines, To north or south of which all virtue pines.
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